Synthesizers.com Brings Big Modular To The 2025 NAMM Show

At the 2025 NAMM Show, large format synth maker Synthesizers.com has a booth, where they are showcasing a large Studio System modular synthesizer.

This is the first time that Synthesizers.com has had a presence at NAMM. The company’s founder, Roger Arrick, started in 1999, with the goal of reviving Moog format modulars, and one of his strategies for keeping his modules relatively affordable was to sell direct and avoid advertising.

Caleb Duke & Mike Graham of Synthesizers.com

Arrick retired from the company a few years ago, and since then, the company has been trying new approaches to raising awareness of their systems. This has included expanding their Youtube presence, partnering to distribute their synths in some brick and mortar synth shops and, now, presenting at NAMM for the first time.

Their booth is featuring a customized Studio-110 rig, above, with one of their modular CV/Gate/MIDI control keyboards.

The company offers pre-configured 22-, 44-, 66-, 88-, and 110-space systems in Walnut cabinets, but many owners build completely custom system, using modules from a wide range of manufacturers.

In addition to the traditional Walnut Studio Systems, they offer rack-mount options, traditional Moog-style portable cabinets and modern compact cabinets.

While the Synthesizers.com system looks like a Moog modular, the modules are original designs, with the main exception being their 960 sequencer system, which is a full-size clone of the classic Moog step sequencer.

When Arrick started the company, he methodically reviewed what was good and bad about classic Moog systems, and he tried to update Moog’s standard, keeping the large-format usability and feel of Moog’s systems, but modernizing everything else. This included updating the power system, using 10V peak-to-peak signals to reduce noise levels, standardizing panel sizes to ensure complete modularity, minimizing module depth to allow modules to be mounted in shallow cases, and standardizing gate/trigger signals, so that all signals are passed using the same cables and jacks.

The ‘dotcom’ update of the Moog format has become a standard that’s now supported by dozens of manufacturers, second only to the Eurorack format.

Here’s a video from the show floor, via Sonic State:

Pricing and Availability:

Synthesizers.com systems are available now, starting around $2,000 USD for a compact modular rig and topping out around $21,500 for a 110-space monster synth like the one that they’re showcasing at NAMM. Individual modules are also available.

18 thoughts on “Synthesizers.com Brings Big Modular To The 2025 NAMM Show

      1. I was being sarcastic. But, if you wanna pay $13,000+ for a Behringer system 55 equivalent, be my guest. And with the System 55, you’d get an extra row to put anything you want including some of their well priced but very useful system 100 modules which are a great combo with some of the stuff these moog systems are missing.

        1. As an owner of both a dotcom system and a Behringer Euro system, the Behringer is ‘good enough’ for people that can’t afford something better.

          But the dotcom completely blows away the Behringer in terms of sound, capabilities, build quality and usability. This makes it MUCH more fun to work with, which for me is the whole point.

          1. what size pots do they put in dot com gear? can’t find many images, 16mm? personally, for that price i would expect 24mm. especially in any module with an audio taper; 911, 911a, 921’s, 904’s, although the last is not that critical.

            Behringer’s have low quality 9mm’s. i swap them for Taiwan Alpha’s. after that, it’s been a great synth along with Moog semi-modulars.

      1. I really don’t need to audition the modules in VCV, [but Of course, I am going to), believe me, I WANT the real thing!!!….

        There are (just)? the two aforementioned problems however….. 😉

  1. Further thought:

    That patch sounds LUSH!!! Oh for 17.5k odd £ spare!! (And a place to put it)! (LOL)!)…

    I’m sure there is a lifetime of possibilities there!

  2. Twenty years ago, Synthesizers.com was the only company that I knew of building/selling modular systems and modules in this format, back when analog was not in vogue. I wanted one their systems at that time, but with a family and mortgage couldn’t afford it. I should have perhaps found some way to start one of their entry level systems that they had available and built on it over the years. Maybe I should do that now, but I have zero room left in my home studio and still have so many things for which I need money (new shingles on my roof, ongoing home remodeling projects, spoiling the grandkids, etc. etc. etc.). I suppose I could forgo getting my wife and the rest of my family and friends Christmas gifts and spend that money on myself.

    1. Most people don’t go out and spend $20k on a modular.

      Most of us buy a module a couple of times a year, and then wake up 10 years later and realize that we’ve spent $20k on a modular.

      It might be crazy, but I love it!

    2. I like that they say they want to make large format modular synths affordable… And then make it completely out of reach for 99% of the world

  3. I got to play a Moog IIIC at one point. I had a Mini, so I understood part of it. My main takeaway was that it was just waiting for someone to become its Phantom, because you have to be a bit mad to take it on. You should sit at one at least once and consider what it could do, but also what you’re getting into!

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